Bibliography for News Literacy

Agosto, Denise E., ed. Information Literacy and Libraries in the Age of Fake News. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2018.

Bober, Tom. Building News Literacy: Lessons for Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in Elementary and Middle Schools. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2021.

Boyd, Danah. "You Think You Want Media Literacy….Do You?", March 2018, from SXSW EDU Keynote, "What Hath We Wrought?" https://points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you-7cad6af18ec2

Breakstone, Joel, Sarah McGrew, Mark Smith, Teresa Ortega, and Sam Wineburg. "Why We Need a New Approach to Teaching Digital Literacy," Phi Delta Kappan 99 (6), 27-32. Available at https://kappanonline.org/breakstone-need-new-approach-teaching-digital-literacy/

Colbert, Stephen. "The Word – Truthiness," The Colbert Report Daily Show, October 17, 2005. http://www.cc.com/video-clips/63ite2/the-colbert-report-the-word---truthiness

Cordell, Diane M. Using Images to Teach Critical Thinking Skills: Visual Literacy and Digital Photography. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2015.

"Educator's Guide: Types of Online Fakes," in Verification Handbook: A Definitive Guide to Verifying Digital Content for Emergency Coverage. https://datajournalism.com/read/handbook/verification-1/additional-materials/types-of-online-fakes

Hill, Kristy. Teaching Elementary Students Real-Life Inquiry Skills. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2019.

Hudson River School (paintings). https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hurs/hd_hurs.htm

Library of Congress. Little Rock Nine, Elizabeth Eckford & Hazel Brown https://www.history.com/news/the-story-behind-the-famous-little-rock-nine-scream-image

Lou, Eric. "Why Ordinary People Need to Understand Power, TEDCity2.0, September 2013. https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_liu_why_ordinary_people_need_to_understand_power/transcript

Luhtala, Michelle, and Jacquelyn Whiting. News Literacy: The Keys to Combating Fake News. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2018.

On the Media. Breaking News Consumer's Handbooks. (WNYC podcasts). Available online at https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/projects/breaking-news-consumers-handbook.

Reid, Alastair. "Are You a Journalist?: Download this Free Guide to Verifying Photos and Videos." First Draft News. September 24, 2015. https://firstdraftnews.com/are-you-a-journalist-download-this-free-guide-for-verifying-photos-and-videos/

Silverblatt, Art, Andrew Smith, Don Miller, Julie Smith, and Nikole Brown. Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages, Fourth Edition. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2014.

Tank Man image. http://100photos.time.com/photos/jeff-widener-tank-man

"13 Online Tools that Help to Verify the Authenticity of a Photo." StopFake.org. July 29, 2014. https://www.stopfake.org/en/13-online-tools-that-help-to-verify-the-authenticity-of-a-photo/

Valenza, Joyce. "Truth, Truthiness, Triangulation: a News Literacy toolkit for a "Post-Truth World", SLJ. http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2016/11/26/truth-truthiness-triangulation-and-the-librarian-way-a-news-literacy-toolkit-for-a-post-truth-world/

Wesch, Michael. "From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-Able," TEDxKC, October 12, 2010. https://youtu.be/LeaAHv4UTI8

SLC RESOURCES

Fredrick, Kathy. "Fostering Digital Citizenship." School Library Monthly, 29, no. 4, January 2013. School Library Connection, schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/Article/1967471. (Article)

Kachel, Debra E. "Fake News: A Golden Opportunity to Develop Parent Advocates." School Library Connection, August 2017, schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/Article/2120922. (Article)

Luhtala, Michelle, and Jacquelyn Whiting. "News Literacy: The Keys to Combating Fake News." School Library Connection, October 2018, schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/LiteratureLesson/2174091?terms=news+literacy&topicCenterId=2158552. (Lesson Plan)

McQueen, Sharon. "Information Literacy and Libraries in the Age of Fake News." School Library Connection, October 2020, schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/LiteratureLesson/2244524?terms=news+literacy. (Lesson Plan)

Moreillon, Judi. "Leadership: Teaching Digital Citizenship." School Library Monthly, 30, no. 1, September 2013. School Library Connection, schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/Article/1967039. (Article)

Stout, Robin Ward. "Digital Literacy–Digital Citizenship." School Library Connection, November 2017, schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/Article/2129168. (Article)

Vardell, Sylvia. "Facing Fake News and Information." School Library Connection, March 2017, schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/Article/2068492. (Article)

Whitehead, Tiffany. "Helping Students Navigate the News." School Library Connection, February 2020, schoollibraryconnection.com/Content/Article/2212467. (Article)

TOOLS

First Draft

Works to protect communities across the world from disinformation.

https://firstdraftnews.org/

Snopes

The internet's definitive fact-checking resource.

https://www.snopes.com/

Politifact

Fact-checking journalism that gives citizens the information they need.

http://www.politifact.com/

Hoax-Slayer

Debunks hoaxes and exposes scams and educates web users about email, social media, and Internet security.

http://hoax-slayer.com/

PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS

Danah Boyd

Technology and social media scholar; principal researcher at Microsoft

http://www.danah.org/ or @zephoria

Citizen University

"Building a Culture of Powerful, Responsible Citizenship"

http://www.citizenuniversity.us/ or @CitizenUniv

ConnectSafely

A nonprofit organization that educates online users about safety, privacy, and security

http://www.connectsafely.org/

Google: Be Internet Awesome

Helping students be safe, confident explorers of the online world

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/

Listenwise

Works to build listening skills for 21^st century learning

listenwise.com

SearchReSearch

A blog by Dan Russell about all things search related

searchresearch1.blogspot.com

Stanford History Education Group

Providing accessible, high-quality teaching tools to educators

https://sheg.stanford.edu/

Stony Brook Digital Resource Center / Center for News Literacy

Shares information and materials to help teach news literacy

https://digitalresource.center/splashpage

Michael Wesch, PhD

Internationally recognized as a leader in teaching innovation

https://www.k-state.edu/sasw/faculty/wesch.html or @mwesch